failure tagged posts
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Make More Mistakes
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Spirit at Work 
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We all want to be around people who make us feel good about ourselves. Even when they are critical of our performance they always appreciate the performer. When we judge someone else we lump the doer and the deed together. We do this to others because we do it to ourselves, and it is a HUGE MISTAKE. You are not your actions; you are that which acts and you act based on your best level of awareness at that time...
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Suffering is Surmountable: 25 Steps to Conquering Complacency
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance -
“…All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”It is often easy to complain that the present pace and complexity of change is often overwhelming but this quote taken from the first line of the indictment section of the Declaration of Independence reveals how easily we can be lulled into a sense of helplessness...
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Are we taught to fear failure?
January 25, 2013
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We marvel at rags to riches success stories inspired by those who endure failure after failure persisting in the face of insurmountable obstacles to prevail against overwhelming odds. But to those who have lived those experiences these stories often miss the real point.
It is tempting to attribute a great deal of STARBUCKS success to perseverance when we learn of their inauspicious opening...
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